The Greenland Sea Project was developed by the Arctic Ocean Science Board, and was designed to enhance understanding of large scale and long-term processes in the Greenland Sea. The processes inducing the formation and characteristic properties of Greenland Sea Deep water, and the admixture of this with Arctic Ocean Bottom Water to form the Norwegian Sea Deep Water commanded special attention.
Initial data management of this data set was undertaken by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, and the processed data set was passed to the ICES Secretariat for long-term archival.
The number of deep water stations contained in this data set is 350, of which 157 include chemical measurements. Five countries participated, namely Canada, Germany, Iceland, Norway, and USA.
Full details of shipborne observations, including information about the data held in this data set and elsewhere, is contained in the PC-based ICES ROSCOP database. The ROSCOP database can also be interrogated on-line via a web-interface.